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MORNING STAR INDUSTRIES – PRIVACY POLICY
Morning Star Industries, Inc. and its family of related sites (the “site” or “sites”) is dedicated to protecting the privacy of our valued online customers (and has been since the year 2000). Morning Star Industries, Inc. created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its firm commitment to the safety of your personal information.
Morning Star Industries, Inc.’s mission is to provide the most compelling shopping experience for our customers, so at Morning Star Industries, Inc. we want you to feel safe while visiting a partner site or a site that we develop or manage.
We know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust in us to do so carefully and sensibly. As you will see below, Morning Star Industries, Inc.’s Privacy Policy outlines some of the types of personal information we receive and collect, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard your information. We hope this Privacy Policy will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.
This Privacy Policy covers the following information:
1. The types of personally identifiable information collected about you during your relationship with Morning Star Industries, Inc..
2. How we use and share the information that we collect from you.
3. The choices you have about the collection, use and sharing of your personally identifiable information.
4. The types of security procedures we take to safeguard your personally identifiable information.
5. Other information.
6. How you can ask questions, or send us comments about this Privacy Policy.
Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and your consent to the practices it describes. The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve the shopping experience at Morning Star Industries, Inc..
1. Types of Personally Identifiable Information Collected by Morning Star Industries, Inc.
While you visit Morning Star Industries, Inc. we collect various types of personally identifiable information (PII). Here are the types of information we gather:
a. Information You Provide Us.
Much of the personally identifiable information we receive comes directly from customers who are interested in obtaining various products and services by shopping at Morning Star Industries, Inc.. Typically, this information includes your name, postal address, email address and telephone number. We may also collect other types of information such as gender, age, number of children, and personal interests, which we may associate with personally identifiable information. If you purchase products or services from Morning Star Industries, Inc. we will note, for example, credit card information, the type of services or products ordered or purchased, and the date of the order or purchase. We collect personal information when you register, log on, or visit our sites, including when you participate in activities on our sites, such as by placing an order, completing a user registration form or online survey, creating an address book, using our Shopping or Gift Services (including eGifts, Gift Certificates, Gift Registry, Bridal Registry, Reminder Service), or participating in a rebate offer, game, promotion, contest or sweepstakes.
b. Information From Others.
Morning Star Industries, Inc. is constantly improving the products and services we provide our consumers. To aid in serving you better we may supplement personally identifiable information that we have collected directly from our customers with other information that we obtain from third parties or from our partner stores. In addition, we may obtain information about individuals who are not yet users of Morning Star Industries, Inc.. To insure your privacy when we associate information that we obtain from third parties with personally identifiable information that we have collected under this Privacy Policy, we will treat the acquired information like the information that we collected ourselves and, except as permitted by this Privacy Policy, the information will not be shared with other third parties.
c. Information Collected Through Technology.
We collect information through technology to make Morning Star Industries, Inc. more interesting and useful to you. For instance, when you come to one of the Morning Star Industries, Inc. sites, we collect your IP address. An IP address is often associated with the portal through which you enter the Internet, like your ISP (Internet service provider), your company, or your university. Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. At times, we also use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our customers visit various parts of our sites. We may combine this information with personally identifiable information as more fully described in paragraph 1a. above.
Morning Star Industries, Inc. also uses cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a site sends to your computer while you are viewing the site. Morning Star Industries, Inc. and other companies use cookies for a variety of purposes. For instance, when you return to Morning Star Industries, Inc. after logging in, cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember you. We may also use temporary or “session” cookies to help you shop. These cookies will expire when you place an order. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your experience on Morning Star Industries, Inc. smoother, like the features mentioned above, and some of our services will not function properly including the shopping cart and checkout areas. Some of our business partners may also use cookies on our site; however, we have no access to, or control over, these cookies and do not accept any responsibility for such use.
The Morning Star Industries, Inc. sites use a variety of technical methods for tracking purposes, including web beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of sites. We may use these technical methods to analyze the traffic patterns on our sites, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts of our sites. These technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. We also use these technical methods in HTML emails that we send our customers to determine whether customers have opened those emails and/or clicked on links in those emails. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that is personally identifiable.
The Morning Star Industries, Inc. sites may include third party advertising and links to other web sites such as Google, advertising.com or shopping.com. These companies are called “network advertisers.” We do not provide any personally identifiable information to these network advertisers. Network advertisers who place advertisements on our sites may also use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information. You may not realize this information is being collected. In some cases, we may have access to information from web beacons and cookies used by network advertisers on our sites and this information may permit us to identify other sites that you have visited that are also associated with the network advertiser. Once you have clicked on an advertisement and have left our sites, our Privacy Policy no longer applies and you must read the privacy policy of the advertiser to see how your personal information will be handled on their site. You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of the information that they collect.
2. How We Use and Share the Personally Identifiable Information We Collect
a. Use by Morning Star Industries, Inc..
Morning Star Industries, Inc. may use personally identifiable information for Operational Uses such as helping to establish and verify the identity of users; opening, maintaining, administering and servicing user accounts; processing, servicing or enforcing transactions and sending related service communications; providing services and support to users such as eGifts, Gift Certificates, Gift Registry, Bridal Registry, Reminders, rebates, contests, sweepstakes, and address books; improving the web site, including tailoring it to users’ preferences; providing users with service or product updates, promotional notices and offers; responding to your questions, inquiries, comments and instructions; and maintaining the security and integrity of our systems. Morning Star Industries, Inc. may also use personally identifiable information to provide offers, promotions and product updates to you via standard mail. Your email address may be used by Morning Star Industries, Inc. or any subsidiary, parent or other coroporation into which Morning Star Industries, Inc. merges or is otherwise acquired or sold, in whole or in part.
Morning Star Industries, Inc. welcomes you to post reviews, comments, articles, stories and other appropriate content; send ecards and other communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information. Information or content submitted may be used by Morning Star Industries, Inc. or its affiliates to provide other consumers with product reviews and shopping information. If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Morning Star Industries, Inc. a nonexclusive, fee-free, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant Morning Star Industries, Inc. the right to use the name or home town that you submit in connection with such content.
b. Use of Your Email Address.
Morning Star Industries, Inc. may use your email address for processing, servicing or enforcing transactions and sending related service communications; providing users with service or product updates, promotional notices and offers; and/or responding to your questions, inquiries or comments. Your email address may be used by Morning Star Industries, Inc. or any subsidiary, parent or other corporation into which Morning Star Industries, Inc. merges or is otherwise acquired or sold, in whole or in part.
c. Use by Merchant Partners.
Morning Star Industries, Inc. and its Merchant Partners share information about you for Fulfillment Uses such as using your email address for shipping and other contact information for purposes of processing, servicing or enforcing transactions and sending order status and other related communications. You can contact each Merchant Partner by clicking on the “Stores” tab, then locating the particular Merchant Partner and finding contact information in the “Merchant Information” link.
d. Co-Branding Partners.
Morning Star Industries, Inc. has Co-Branding Partners that provide unique benefits to certain loyal customers. In Co-Branded Partnerships, Morning Star Industries, Inc. may acquire or use personally identifiable information to communicate special offers, provide additional benefits or for other related uses.
e. Disclosures Required By Law and Disclosures to Help Protect the Security and Safety of Our Sites, and Others.
Regardless of any opt-out choices that you make under paragraph 3, Morning Star Industries, Inc. will disclose personal information when it believes in good faith that such disclosures (a) are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our Terms of Use; enforce contest, sweepstakes, promotions, and/or game rules; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect the safety and security of our sites, Morning Star Industries, Inc., and/or third parties, including the safety and security of property that belongs to Morning Star Industries, Inc. or third parties.
f. No Sharing with Third-Party Marketers.
We do not rent to, or share your personal information with third-party marketers without first obtaining your consent. Should this policy change in the future, Morning Star Industries, Inc. will post a notification of those changes to the homepage and other places Morning Star Industries, Inc. deems appropriate.
3. Your choices about the collection, use and sharing of your personally identifiable information
With regard to personal information that you provide under this Privacy Policy, there are two separate opt-out choices available to you. These opt-out choices are the means by which you give us, or decline to give us, your consent to use your personal information for the purposes covered by these opt-out choices. There are several methods by which you can exercise your opt-out choices: (a) calling us by phone 1-800-440-6050; (b) e-mailing us at info@morningstarusa.com.
Please keep in mind that any opt-out choices you make will not apply in situations where (a) you either have made, simultaneously make, or later make a specific request for information from Morning Star Industries, Inc., (b) Morning Star Industries, Inc. uses your personal information for either “Operational Uses” or “Fulfillment Uses” (as described above in paragraph 2), (c) Morning Star Industries, Inc. shares your personal information under the provisions of paragraph 2 above with respect to “Companies That Facilitate Communications and Transactions With You,” or “Disclosures Required By Law and Disclosures to Help Protect the Security and Safety of Our Web Sites, Morning Star Industries, Inc. and Others.”
Finally, if you do not exercise your opt-out choices upon registration or initial log-in at our sites, it may take up to ten (10) days for your opt-out choices to be fully effective. As our systems require time to update, promotional mailings using personal information shared before you opt-out may already be in process. Thus, you might continue to receive promotional materials from Morning Star Industries, Inc. based upon the personal information you have provided under this Privacy Policy for up to ten (10) days. For similar reasons, your personal information might continue to be shared with third parties for promotional purposes for up to ten (10) days.
4. Morning Star Industries, Inc. Security Measures to protect your personal information
The security and confidentiality of your information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access and improper use. On a regular basis, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your email address, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Whether you’re ordering a catalog or making a purchase, we want you to feel safe and secure while visiting Morning Star Industries, Inc.. You can also feel confident making purchases from established Co-Branded Partner sites. To ensure that your credit card information is even more secure, we use secure sockets layer (SSL) software (which encrypts the information you input) when you give us your credit card information. We encrypt all credit card information and store it on a server that isn’t accessible on the Internet. Once we store that information, it can not be displayed anywhere on Morning Star Industries, Inc.. Internally, Morning Star Industries, Inc. takes extra caution to limit access to customers’ information. Only a few individuals within the company are given degrees of access to customers’ personal information according to job function and necessity. Access is granted to these employees through special passwords. All employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy practices. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure, guarded environment. If you have any questions about security on our web site, you can send an email to us at info@morningstarusa.com.
This web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Morning Star Industries, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this site.
6. Other Information
a. Child Use.
Morning Star Industries, Inc. does not sell products for purchase by children. If you are under 18, you may use Morning Star Industries, Inc. only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
b. Legal Disclaimer.
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our site.
c. Notification of Changes.
Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Policy will change accordingly. We may email periodic reminders of changes to our Privacy Policy, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
If we decide to change our email practices, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy statement, the homepage and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
7. Questions, Comments, Contact Information Regarding our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Morning Star Industries, Inc.
819 SW Federal Highway
Suite 206
Stuart, FL 34957
Telephone:1-800-440-6050
email: info@morningstarusa.com
